On Creativity

*** I wrote a song. I heard a sad story about a friend from high school and I walked around a field and this melody came to me. Over a few weeks, I let it emerge.

It isn’t absent or apart from you. You, too, can create. You, too, have a song in there that needs to come out. You, too, can be haunted by a tune and willingness to bring it to life.

You can sit for hours and contemplate orchestration sounds like Mahler and Bernstein. Your life is a unique voice of experience. There is no guarantee of genius, but there …